whatever Trump has in store for the intelligence community (most likely petty score settling, purging of perceived enemies and handing over FP to Heritage and FDD) I will wager my life it will look nothing like the Church Committee
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I'm not surprised the Intelligence Community has gone quiet for the most part. If I were one of them, I'd have my antennae on alert for countermeasure plots afoot. "Sign me up!" messages on WhatApp? Cryptokeys in a book by Ian Fleming? Trump should keep his bunker warm...
Yeah totally believe he is going to uncover what has been done at black sites, and not find some cooked up memo that if you squint enough kinda looks like Biden did something shady in 2020 if you also have a head injury.
It’s beyond stupid to think Trump is clearing house or uncovering the seedy underbelly given he was already President and this person is supposed to be a real professional who knows things lol
the funniest part about this is they probably imagined random people they hated to be CIA or something and then will do all this and find out some of their intended targets never ever worked there
what a fucking insane grifter take to have. how did this guy become a committed far right wing propagandist, its so batshit. almost certainly and kind of obviously what they would LIKE to do will be what was the SUBJECT of the Church Committee, shit like Cointelpro & political assassinations
It's not as simple as being purchased. Matt saw the writing on the wall, and I think, just like he did w/ the eXile, he roached out, and sold out. He didn't like the attacks from liberal establishment hacks, and pivoting left wasn't lucrative, so in his brain, join the winning side that can wreck it
the attacks from liberal establishment hacks were a permanent feature the whole time, we all deal with those ppl. if you sell out your conscience to a far right that is trying to drag the world into ruin for their own shameless corruption youre an irredeemable piece of shit
From what I understand about him, his background, from Mark Ames who worked very closely w/ Matt at the eXile, he was a guy who genuinely wanted recognition and acclaim from the prestigious journalism crowd, despite his bad boy persona.
later, Matt joined w/ GG and Pierre Omidyar at Intercept.
I think joining hands w/ connected tech oligarch Omidyar and GG, and the suspicions Mark had that Matt might have even sold him out to Russian authorities leading to the paper being shut down and Mark having to flee Moscow, are possibly critical early clues for his eventual heel-turn.
"I hate the disingenuous liberal hacks, lemme do stenography for the oligarchs & Nazis they were defending, who are several steps worse" is such a pathetic, brainless grift for someone who writes from a perspective none of them care about at all
He'll be trying rationalize their worst behaviors into something useful, and they just do not care about that, thats not what any of it's about for them. The only ppl who could conceivably be swayed by that are... the liberal/centrist hacks, who hate him
not sure what kind of deranged creep you need to be to come up during the miserable fall of a country and then decades later hire yourself out as a freelancer to speed up the dangerous collapse of another one
or how you write about injustice & the corruption of elites for most of those decades only to shut your conscience off and start writing about how the most corrupt elites will save us from injustice
Step 1: The people who’ve tried to replace Christmas with “happy holidays” are joyless neoliberal identitarian scolds. Santa is a hero of the white working class.
man I know it’s been years since he burned all of his credibility but Taibbi going from being a leading Iraq War critic and the guy who wrote insane clown president, to being this bootlicking bald worm in a newsboy cap in service of capital….
I listened to Taibbi's podcast before he turned overt grifter. I remember him talking about the need to make money to pay for his kids' private schooling. I think that kind of explains Taibbi.
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/1/29/2300056/-Need-Some-Tips-to-Resist-in-the-Office-Look-at-This-Old-CIA-Field-Manual-to-Resisting-Fascism
later, Matt joined w/ GG and Pierre Omidyar at Intercept.
I used to like Matt's work, but it was always disingenuous
it still kinda fucks me up